Miles Davis Quotes

For me, learning music and playing music and learning your instrument has incredible parallels for our day-to-day existence as human beings. All the ideas of discipline, and having a sense of yourself and translating that to music, that's all part of life's journey.

It keeps my feet on the ground just making sure that I'm always trying to learn something new or trying to be a real guitar player.

You do have to put in a lot time to get good at anything and than includes cartoons. So I think it's true of art and everything else.

I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.

I started juggling a long time ago, but long before that, I was a golfer, and that's what I was: a golfer. And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process. And it's the process of learning things.

Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.

Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn.

No matter how much cricket you have played you are always learning.

You have to practice for a long time before you can learn to sound like yourself

It takes you years to learn how to play like yourself.

Whatever sport you choose, do it because you love it, and don't expect to be an expert first thing. It takes time to do well at anything, but if you love it, you'll stick with it.

The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time.

Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.

You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything: You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.

Really, acting is like anything else. The more time you put in, the more you learn and the more you can give back to the industry.

You only get better by playing.

I wasn't the most confident of cooks, but I just persevered, and I wanted to learn, and I wanted to be a sponge, and I wanted to be better than the next person, and I wanted to learn as much as I could, so I just kept pushing, and it took me a long time actually to be confident in my technique and my ability as a cook.

I don't know how anybody gets better at anything aside from doing it.

You just want to hone your craft, whatever it may be.

It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

There's different aspects of the game you have got to pick up along the way. I think I am picking it up fairly quickly and I'm learning all the time and I can only get better.

I want to get better and better at my craft.

It takes a long time to get good at something, so it's important to begin as early as possible so that we can improve and begin to see the compounding benefits of the work over time.